Saturday, March 29, 2014

Daily Project ~ Post Heart 3.28.14

President Obama and Pope Francis meet at the Vatican. Two
men with “radically different politics” but who have both “sought to change the
public character of the institutions they run”.

The detail that ended up on the randomly cut heart must be
some architectural feature. It is the section of the photo between the faces of
the president and the pope. I kept the lines blurry between the randomly chosen
colors, as in the photo. The only sharp line being the tip of the president’s
nose. The last color chosen, that healing green again. (maybe a need to mix up
my pencils better)

I fussed with this drawing. It took me longer that the
previous ones. I got hung up on the green circle and getting rid of a pencil
line I didn’t like. I scratched into the surface with an X-acto blade to
lighten areas and around the border to soften the green line I was sorry I put
there.

This one really brought out some obsessiveness! It’s interesting
to start my day with these drawings and see what they bring up. Like doing
ground exercises with my horse to see where her head is before I get on her,
this practice of drawing the hearts tells me something about how I might
approach my work for the day.